What you Wish for in Youth: Three Short Plays
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
What you Wish for in Youth: Three Short Plays
By (Author) Barney Norris
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
23rd September 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
120
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
150g
Description
Three short plays from the multi-award-winning writer of Visitors At First Sight: Two young people meet and spend a New Year together in Salzburg. Holly is there on holiday with her parents; Jack plays piano in the hotel bar. Their story is told through a collage of exchange and recollection. At First Sight toured the UK and ended at the Latitude Festival, 2011. Winner of the Drama Association of Wales One Act Play Competition. Fear Of Music: Luke is the first in his family to go to university, and hes determined to stop his irritating fireball of a brother from following in their fathers footsteps by joining the army. Vivid, detailed and often hilarious, Fear of Music time-bends between 1987 and 1993, piecing together the prelude and aftermath of a tragedy that sees history repeating itself. Every You Every Me: Every You Every Me is a play about coping, Kurt Cobain, rebellion, revolution, opening your A-level results, choosing your life and the pressure of systems on kids. A new play exploring teenagers mental health issues, performed at the Salisbury Playhouse Salberg Studio.
Reviews
Three short plays from the multi-award-winning writer of Visitors astonishingly accomplisheda sensitive and wise vision of the changing texture of Britain Pitch perfect Time Out This is smart work Telegraph * Evening Standard *
This is smart work * Daily Telegraph on Fear of Music *
Poignant, memorable, touching, unsettling * British Theatre Guide on Fear of Music *
Author Bio
Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987. Upon leaving university he founded the touring theatre company Up In Arms with Alice Hamilton. He won the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award and the Offie Award for Most Promising Playwright for Visitors (Up In Arms, Arcola Theatre, tour and Bush Theatre). His books include To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill. His first novel, Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain, will be published by Doubleday in 2016.
